Steven Leigh Morris

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Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013: Our Preview

See also: *All of our Hollywood Fringe 2013 reviews from L.A. Weekly critics "Most of the stuff is awful, but it brings an entirely different crowd to the theater," says a local artistic director, referring to the Hollywood Fringe festival, after a festival preview performance. This may not sound like......
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Why Two Celebrated Theaters Have to Leave Their Hollywood Homes

Last month, at about the same time, Open Fist Theatre Company and Celebration Theatre gave notice to their respective landlords, the primary reason being rent increases that were pricing them out. Particularly disturbing about this development is the history of both award-winning theaters, and their artistic contributions to their communities......
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In A Fried Octopus and Heart Song, Beauty Conquers All

A central character in A Fried Octopus is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The diminutive French painter-printmaker-draughtsman, who devised his art from the boulevards and alleys of late–19th century Paris, is depicted here by Kirk Wilson, who wanders the stage with absinthe, the potent liquor glowing green in the bottom of his......
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With Dulce Rosa, an Isabel Allende Story Becomes Opera

It's taken 11 years to get director-lyricist Richard Sparks and composer Lee Holdridge's new opera, Dulce Rosa, from the germ of an idea to a full production. Sparks and Holdridge have worked together for two decades as professional partners; they've had five prior works commissioned by L.A. Opera over a......